How to: Setup and configure a Microsoft Key Management Service (KMS) Server

Posted by on January 23, 2012 No comments

Microsoft offers multiple methods for activating Windows in a small to large sized business environment. While home users and businesses using retail or MAK keys activate their copies of Office and Windows directly with Microsoft (either online or by phone), …

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Windows 8 Storage Improvements

Posted by on December 14, 2011 No comments

At the end of November the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team posted two articles about the upcoming storage changes in Windows 8. The highlights from the blog are as follows, the links below will take you to the original posts …

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How To: Boot your PC from a VHD

Posted by on December 13, 2011 No comments

With the release of Windows 7, Microsoft added the ability to boot off of VHD files using the new BCD boot manager. The major advantage of this is that it allows you to create the virtual disk on an existing partition …

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OpenDNS DNSCrypt Announced

Posted by on December 7, 2011 No comments

Yesterday, OpenDNS announced DNSCrypt which provides a mechanism for protecting against DNS spoofing and man-in-the-middle attacks. Check out the press release for more details. Right now it is available for Mac only, but will soon be available for Windows and …

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FreeNAS 8.0.1 Storage Appliance

Posted by on October 8, 2011 No comments

In a previous post, I mentioned that I was planning on re-purposing an old linux server I had laying around to a FreeNAS storage server. While I was learning more about FreeNAS I decided to hold off on the upgrades …

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How to: Import Virtual Machines Into Amazon with the Amazon EC2 API Tools

Posted by on August 26, 2011 7 comments

Amazon’s recent announcement regarding support for importing Windows Server 2003 VMs into EC2 (along with adding support for VHD disk images) reminded me that I have yet to give this awesome service a try. The following instructions should get you …

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Defcon/BlackHat 2011 – Scariest hacks

Posted by on August 24, 2011 No comments

With Black Hat and Defcon done for the year comes the latest major security vulnerabilities. The blog post below overviews just ten of the many talks regarding cyber security. 10 Scariest Hacks from Black Hat and Defcon Share this post:FacebookStumbleUponShareRedditDiggEmailPrint

How To: Root and Flash a Custom ROM for the Samsung Droid Charge

Posted by on August 14, 2011 No comments

I was recently eligable to upgrade from my original Motorola Droid and choose to go with one of Verizon’s new LTE handsets. The Samsung Charge (SCH-I510) is a great phone and does everything one would expect a modern smartphone to do, …

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Windows Server 8 Sneak Preview

Posted by on July 31, 2011 No comments

Check out the following video for a sneak preview of Windows Server 8 Hyper-V replication as well as a short demo of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. The sections are pretty short and there is a lot of boring …

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MacFuse Issues with Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)

Posted by on July 25, 2011 12 comments

I started using EncFS to do file level encryption for my Dropbox account after the recent security issues with Dropbox. I opted to use EncFS instead of TrueCrypt since I did not want to deal with an encrypted container file. On …

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